Puzzling parasynthetic compounds in Norwegian

Chapter by Janne Bondi Johannessen in Order and Structure in Syntax II: Subjecthood and Argument Structure, 2017.

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Abstract

This paper describes parasynthetic compounds in Norwegian and questions some recent claims made in the literature about this kind of word formation. In particular, it will be argued that they are not marginal, but productive, and that they are semantically compositional.

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